Sir Andy Haines is a Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at the Centre for Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He was Director of LSHTM between 2001-2010. After beginning his career as a doctor in London, Haines went on to serve in countries such as Jamaica and Nepal.

His work treating vulnerable populations in low-income settings influenced his later career, both as a practicing family doctor and in making the link between ill-health and environmental changes. In the 1990s, along with eminent epidemiologist Professor Tony McMichael, he co-authored some of the most important early assessments of climate change and human health. Since then, his work has focused on the environmental influences on health, including the effects of climate change – as well as the health co-benefits of low carbon policies.

From 1993-6 he was the Regional Director of Research at the National Health Service, North Thames. He was knighted for services to medicine in 2005. Haines has been a member of many international committees including the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research, and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the Second, Third, and Fifth Assessment Reports.